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This is what I got for a report.


C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini032405-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\JAMESD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1.tmp.dir01\sysdata.xml

At the time i was playing dungeon siege a computer game online, suddenly the monitor went blue, flashed bunch of normal error coding message, then the system shut itself down and restarted.

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The crash dump posted by and the follow-up questions from and point to a common pattern for random blue screens that appear during gaming: the minidump is the single best clue, but the usual suspects are intermittent RAM faults, graphics-driver or other third‑party driver problems, overheating, or power-supply instability. The file that attached is the starting point for a focused, step‑by‑step diagnosis rather than guessing from symptoms alone.

A pragmatic diagnostic workflow (in roughly the order to try) is:

  1. Analyze the minidump with a crash-dump viewer to see which module/driver is implicated (quick tool: BlueScreenView).
  2. Run an overnight, bootable memory test (Memtest86+) to catch intermittent RAM errors that short diagnostics can miss.
  3. Update or perform a clean reinstall of the video driver and chipset drivers; test with stock GPU settings (no overclock).
  4. Monitor CPU/GPU temperatures under load and verify PSU stability; gaming loads expose thermal and power problems.
  5. If the dump names a third‑party driver, remove or update that package; if hardware is suspected, test with known‑good components or run the system with minimal hardware.

For deeper analysis and authoritative guidance on reading crash dumps, the Microsoft crash-dump documentation is useful. If hardware diagnostics already reported “OK,” note that many factory tests miss intermittent faults; repeated failures or a dump that repeatedly points at the same driver are strong evidence to act on. Relevant tools and references: Memtest86 (https://www.memtest.org/), BlueScreenView (https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html), and Microsoft’s crash-dump analysis documentation ().

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what was the error code on the blue screen ???

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BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : E18E464B BCP3 : F4B5FAD0
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 768_1

is the code.

I was reading somethin that said it could be my memory i already checked with my diagnostic software it shows as fine, no trouble there. So what else could it be?

I also checked my CPU its fine, all my hardware shows as being fine. I use Eurosoft PC-Check.

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Games are notorious for getting confused. While ¨computers don´t make mistakes¨. software can. If it only happens once, don´t worry about it. If it happens repeatedly, contact the software manufacturer.

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